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Quotes About Mystery

in all the vastness of the world, the deepest adventure is not of war or mortal danger, but of heart, of soul, of the infinite discovery of a beloved other.
~ A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.
~ Parke Godwin
He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.
~ Darynda Jones
The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.
~ Anne Sexton
One should never know too precisely whom one has married
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
~ John Milton
Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
~ Victor Hugo
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
~ Anne Lamott
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
~ Max Planck
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
~ Paracelsus
Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again
~ Jack Parsons
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
~ Jeremy Narby
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
~ Thomas W. Moore
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.
~ Angeles Arrien
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
~ Mark Twain
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
~ C. S. Lewis
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
~ John Calvin
If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.
~ Holly Black, Tithe
God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
~ Ogden Nash
The human soul is an abyss
~ Fernando Pessoa
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky